More than 60 citizen volunteers participated as well. They played roles ranging from bystanders to victims.”

Roseburg Oregon is one of the prettiest places in America (or at
least the rural valleys outside of the town looked that way last time I
drove through the area a few years back). The hoax shooting was done
there because it is shocking – not like 60 people shot in urban Chicago where gun control is the strictest in the nation.

A man dressed in a black hoodie and goggles
suddenly burst through her classroom door. He leveled a pistol at
McLean’s face and pulled the trigger. The terrified teacher heard
gunfire, smelled smoke, felt her heart racing, she says.

“You’re dead,” the gunman said, and stalked out of her room.
But McLean was alive. The hooded man’s gun was loaded with blanks,
part of a surprise “active shooter” drill at Pine Eagle School District
No. 61, a charter school in the tiny eastern Oregon town of Halfway. The
gun-toting man was Shawn Thatcher, the school district’s safety
officer.
McLean was a casualty of what she now describes in a federal lawsuit
as a harebrained drill in the middle of an in-service day – April 26,
2013 – that has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.